Trivia / Bloody Roar

• Franchise Killer: Bloody Roar 4 due to a combination of middling-to-mediocre critical reception and being the biggest commercial failure compared to the rest of the games in the series. Despite rumors, hoaxes, and speculation of the franchise coming back in one way or another for newer consoles since BR4's release in late 2003, nothing has come of any of it, and it appears that Konami has no interest in the franchise either.
• Game Mod: In December of 2021, an unofficial patch for the PlayStation version of Bloody Roar 2 was made available which redubbed the game with a number of professional voice actors including Casey Mongillo, Xander Mobus, Edward Bosco, Kaiji Tang, and Kira Buckland, among others.
• No Export for You: The manga based on the game was never localized.
• The Other Darrin: It's incredibly rare for a character to be consistently voiced by the same person between two games, more so for one to keep voicing a character for three games (only five characters have had the same voice for three games in a row), and especially so in the English-dubbed versions (only Yugo and Alice kept the same voices between the first and second games). Amusingly, several of Gado's previous voices have returned, but voicing different characters — Barry Gjerde, his (and Greg's) voice from the first game, came back to voice Yugo in 3 (alongside Samantha Vega, who, appropriately, went from Fox to his Suspiciously Similar Substitute Jenny), and then Chris Wells, who voiced him in 3, returned for Primal Fury/Extreme to voice Long. Primal Fury/Extreme is also a particularly odd case, as even the characters who still spoke English in the Japanese version had different voices in the actual English release, with Shina/Marvel and Jenny having the distinction of having three different English-speaking actresses between 3 (respectively Lenne Hardt and Samantha Vega), the Japanese Extreme (Rumiko Varnes^* credited as "Rumiko Burns" and Donna Burke), and its English version Primal Fury (Vanessa Marshall and Tasia Valenza).
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There were rumors about a revival to the franchise long after Bloody Roar 4, which even led to an infamous Bloody Roar 5 hoax in 2011. There were also rumors circulating regarding how Sony might revive the Bloody Roar franchise (similar to what Microsoft did with Killer Instinct), but so far those have been shot down, as the expected announcement turned out to be that Street Fighter V would be a PS4 exclusive on consoles.
• Recast as a Regular: The original game featured an opening sequence narrated by Paul Eiding. Eiding would later return in Primal Fury as the voice of both Gado and the announcer, thanks in part to that game's casting and voice direction being handled by Kris Zimmerman — who saw it fit to bring in a large number of Metal Gear Solid VAs she had previously worked with.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The gallery available in the first game includes concept art for characters that didn't make the cut, including a Native American whose beast form was apparently going to be a bull.
  • Cronos would have been in Bloody Roar 4, but in addition to complications between his differing beast forms and the game's new interface, a brief interview gave a passing mention that he "wasn't dark enough" to fit into the game's theme.
  • In Bloody Roar: The Fang, Mashiro was originally going to be more intelligent than Fang and portrayed with a more stern demeanor. She also would have worn glasses. Her current characterization is the result of Shonen Jump wanting her to appeal to a wider demographic.

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